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'the Defcriptioiis. 
. IV. The fir]} , dr Our common green Garden 
Kind, hs Root is f nail and pcrijhcs every Tear : 
from which Root fpring up mafiy thick round Jbi- 
ning red Stalks , fall of Juice , lying upon the Ground 
for the mofi part , on which are Jet fever al long , 
thick , pale green Leaves^ fonk times alone by them- 
J elves , and fometimes many f mall ones together 
with them j among which gr oho J mall yellow blowers , 
which J} and in little green hutks . containing black 
Seed, 
Par fane Garden. 
V. Gerard deferibes it thus. Its Root hats many 
Strings -, and the Stalks of this Great Purflane are 
round, thick, fomewhat red, full of Juice , /month, 
glittering , and parted into certain Branches trail- 
ing upon the Ground. The Leaves are an Inch long, 
fomething broad, thick, flat , glib, fomewhat green, 
and whitijh underneath. The Homers are /mail, of 
o faint yellow , and grow out at the bottoms of the 
Leaves. After they are pajf, there Springs up in 
each f lowers place, a Husk of a green color , of the 
bignefs tf almojl half a Barly Corn , in which is 
contained [mail black Seed. 
\\. the fecond, or Golden Leav’d Purilane. 
This in its Roots, Stalks, Leaves, flowers , and 
Seed, as alfo m its manner and form of growing, 
is exaf/ly like the former, faving, that ike Leaves are 
of a Jhinning yellowijh, or yellowijh red Golden color, 
and pofjibly larger than the Green Kind before dc- 
feribed -, that the whole Riant fecnistobe the larger, 
and the Stalks to grow fomething the more up- 
right. 
VII. The third, or Greater Wild Purflane. The 
Root is /mail and thready, perijhing at the />/} 
approach r/ Winter, from which rife up fappy reddijh 
Stalks, Jpreadtng much upon the Ground , lying al - 
moft flat thereon, and covering it a great way about. 
The/e Stalks are Jet with thick, fat, Jhining green 
Leaves , like in form or Jhapc, and in all other 
things, unto the Garden Kind, the magnitude only 
excepted, thefe being generally J. mailer , and lej'cr 
at the Joints ; with the Leaves towards the ends 
of life Branches come forth very Jmall Star-like yel- 
lothi/h green flowers , J'carcely to be difeerned , 
and as quickly falling away as the Garden Kind” 
having alje fitch like bard Husks, wherein the like 
Jmall black Seed is contained. This is ufed for a 
Sdllet Herb, as Well as the two former, and differs 
not from them in Tjie , yet Joint think the Tajie 
is more aflringent, than the Garden Kinds, at it h 
JorthentoJl part in all Wild Herbs. 
Par (lane Wild. 
VIII. The fourth , oh LefTer, or Smalleft Wild 
rurllane. It has a Root of a ccnfiderable thicknefs 
running under the upper Surface of the Earth, 
from which a greate number of greater and leffer 
Sittings , and other fmaller fibres proceed, run- 
ning not only down deep into the Earth, but a/moll 
every other way. Thu Small Purflane is like alfo 
to the other, but much fmaller than it, having al- 
ways 2 Leaves Jet together, of a paler yellowijh 
green color, on the thick round Stalks and Branches, 
which fland a little man upright, and bend down to 
the Ground again. The flowers are like the for- 
mer-, and fo is the black Seed, but the Husks open 
themfelves before the Seed is ripe, and fland upon 
fmaller and longer foot Stalks. This lias little or no 
Tajie, but what is flatulent and watery. 
IX. The Places. The firftand fecond grow only 
in Gardens in moll places of England-, by reafon 
the Root perilhes every Year, it mull be fown 
every Spring in April: The Gardeners low it many 
times in Allies between the Beds ; or in rich Beds 
of fat Earth, and moift, where it may have plenty 
of Nounfhment; orinthofe Beds of bung, which 
Gardeners have firft ufed for Nurling up their Cu- 
cumbers , 
